Cops: Thrown brick may have caused fatal crash

Investigators are trying to determine if someone threw a brick through a window of an SUV just before it crashed on Sunday afternoon, killing an 18-year-old man, according to Round Lake Park Police Chief George Filenko.

Rogelio Lopez Jr., of the 2400 block of Passavant Avenue in Round Lake, a passenger in the vehicle, died in the crash, said Lake County Deputy Coroner Mike Reid. The crash happened at about 4:15 p.m., in the 400 block of Clifton Drive.